Clothesline holder



.x I & till/I971 A. G. OSTER CLOTHESLINE HOLDER Filed March 8, I922 Patented Dec. '3, 1924. i

UNITED STATES PATENT FFlE.

ALBERT G. OSTER, 013 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE--HALF TO MAYME A. OSTER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CLOTHESLINE HOLDER.

Application filed March 8, 1922. Serial No. 542,016

T allachom it may concern: Each of the portions 13 terminates down- Be it known that I, ALBERT G. Os'rcn, a wardly as designated at 14 and is formed incitizen of the United States of America, and to a loop 15, the upwardly extending pora resident of the city of St. Louis and State tion 16 of each loop merging into each reof Missouri, have invented certain new and spective end 9 of the looped wire 10. 60 useful Improvements ina GlotheslineHolder, The disposition of the lip 11 is above the of which the following is a specification. horizontal portion 6 of the bracket 1, and The primary object of this invention is to from the disclosure of Fig. 2, is extended at provide an improved automatic clamping some distance from the place or point at device, to be secured to clothes line posts which the ends 9 of the looped wire 10 are 65 and the like, so that a clothes line can be rigidly secured to the upwardly extending quickly and demountably secured thereto. portion 7 of the bracket 1. In this connec- Another object of the invention is to protion, when the lip portion 11 is elevated, vide a clothes line holder with an automatic hinging or fulcrum portions thereof and to 15 clamping means which will readily hold the horizontal portions 13 will be created in the line tightly therein against slipping, and the loops 15. at the same time allow for the clothes line In the securing of a clothes line to a to be readily removed therefrom. series of attachments of this improved char- Other and further objects will appear in acter, when a number of them are secured the specification and be specifically pointed to posts and the like, a portion of the clothes 7 out in the appended claims, reference being line 17 is placed on the horizontal portion had to the accompanying drawings exem- 6 of the bracket 1 between the vertical porplifying the invention, and in which tion 2 thereof and the lip portion 11 ot the Figure 1 is a perspective view of a porwire loop 10, and the clothes line is then tion of a clothes line post showing this imengaged on each side of the bracket por- 80 proved attachment secured thereto, and suption 6 by the manipulator and pulled against porting a clothes line. the lip portion 11 where itwill be engaged Figure 2 is an enlarged side elevation of beneath the rounded portions 18 of said lip this improved device. portion, beneath the horizontal portions 13 Figure 3 is an enlarged plan view of and between said horizontal portions and the Fig, 2, bracket portion 6, as shown in Figs. 1, 3

Figure l is an enlarged transverse section and d. taken on the line IV-IV of Fig. 1. On accouiit of the spring compression of With reference to the accompanying drawthe loops 15, a clamping strain will be given ings this improved attachment is comprised downwardly to the horizontal portions 1.3 no of an angular metallic bracket ll. having a wherein the clothes line 17 will be pinched vertically disposed portion 2 in which is or clamped between said horizontal portions formed a pair of openings 3 for the recep 13 and the corners 19 ot the bracket portion tion oi" the fastening screws 1 for securing (3, the clamping strain of said portion 13 it to a post 5 or the like. against the clot-hes line being so great as to i; The bracket 1 is also provided with a horprevent the clothes line from being slid from izontal portion 6, and formed on said porbeneath the clamping portions 13 when strain tion 6 and in opposite disposition from the is applied thereto in the directions of the vertically extending portion 2 is another double-arrow 20 shown in Fig. 1, said direcextending portion 7 which is provided with tion of pulling being angular to the direca pair of openings 8, each opening being tion in which the clothes line portion was for the reception of a respective end 9 oi engaged beneath the lip 11. a looped wire 10. In detaching a clothes line from a plural- The looped wire 10 is resilient and conity of these improved attachments, the enstructed of relatively heavy material and is gaging portion of the clothes line is pushed E 3 peculiarly shaped, the intermediate portion outwardly from beneath the portions 13 toof said wire being upwardly bent andtorming wards the vertically extending portion 2 of a lip 11, the depending side portions 12 of the bracket 1. said lip each terminating into a horizontally lVhat I claim is extending portion 6 of the bracket 1. 1. A line fastener having an extending i portion and a pair of spaced apart resilient portions leading from said extending portion arranged parallel and in straddling relation thereto, each of said resilient portions adapted to co-operate with a respective side edge of said extending portion.

2. A clothes line holder comprising a supporting base having means for securing itto a post or the like, and a pair of resilient clamping parts rigidly secured at one end to said base each having a portion arranged parallel thereto and spaced a distance apart wider than said base.

3. A holder for a clothes line con'iprising a supporting base provided with means for securing it to a post or the like, and a wire loop secured to said base. formed so as to provide a pair of clamping portions which parallel said base adjacent the side edges thereof, said clamping portions being spaced apart a distance wider than said base.

4. A holder for a clothes line comprising a supporting bracket having an extending portion, a Wire loop having its ends secured to said extending portion, said loop being provided with a pair of port-ions which approximately parallel said extending portion on a plane thereabove, said pair of portions being spaced apart a distance wider than said extending portion.

5. A holder for a clothes line comprising a supporting bracket having an extending portion, a wire loop having its ends secured to said bracket, said loop being provided with a pair of portions which approximately parallel the extending portion of said bracket,'and an up turned portion forming a receiving lip to said paralleling portions of said loop.

6. A holder for a clothes line comprising a bracket having a base portion, said base portion having a portion extending up- Wardly therefrom, a wire loop secured at its ends to said upwardly extending portion. said wire'loop having a pair of spaced apart port-ions extending parallel to said base portion each being adjacent a sideedge of said base portion, and an up turned lip adjoining said paralleling portions.

7. A line fastener having an extending portion and a pair of spaced apart resilient portions leading from said extending portion arranged parallel and in straddling relation over said extending portion, said spaced apart portions being joined at their extending ends, each of said resilientportions being arranged so as to co-operate with a respective side edge of said extending portion for clamping a rope therebetvveen.

ALBERT G. OSTER. 

